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Reflowable EPUBs

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Reflowable EPUBs

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- [Instructor] Reflowable EPUB is a file format that displays a publication like a very simple website. It uses web technologies like HTML and CSS to structure and format the content. And when we consider the options for publishing with EPUB, it's important to distinguish between the two kind of EPUB. First, there's the kind of EPUB that's used for narrative fiction, and other books with very simple layouts. This kind of EPUB allows the user to resize the text, change the font and other aspects of the E-book's appearance. When this happens, the text will reflow throughout the book, so this kind of EPUB is called reflowable. Here's an example, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. So I have text and images, I can navigate to different pages, I have a table of contents that I can click to navigate to different chapters. And in the software for reading the EPUB, I'll have controls to alter the presentation. So I can change the size of the text, I can resize the window to change the margins…

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